Book Review and Author Interview: From Rivets and Rails, Recipes of a Boarding House Cookbook

 From Rivets and Rails is a charming cookbook that preserves a historical era as carefully as its cooks preserved their food---and their recipes. As many successes originate, the endeavor that led to this cookbook was started out of necessity, as Elizabeth Shade Kennedy found herself suddenly widowed with five young sons to raise. To support her family, she established a boarding house for railroad workers on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad lines and kept a detailed cookin...